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The federal government is discussing capping the prices of vocational courses offered through VET FEE-HELP. This is one of the options tabled in a discussion paper the federal skills minister, Scott Ryan, released today. It read: “Recognising course costs are often unreflective of ...

New research shows children who are better at recognising patterns are better at learning grammar, challenging traditional theories of language learning. The researchers tested just under 70 children, aged between 6 and 8, on grammar and pattern recognition. The team ...

Falling Chinese corporate profits are a bad omen for most, but not for those involved in research and development, a senior Australian Government economist argued. Last year, annual Chinese corporate profits fell 1.4 per cent, the first annual decline since ...

Delirium: The Final Frontier. Cellular Senescence as a Reversible Cause of Ageing. Limits to Longevity: The Still-Changing Face of Death. These are three of the talks that will take place at the Australian Biology of Ageing Conference being hosted by the University of ...

Professional learning delivered by academics to teachers in Queensland’s Bowen Basin has improved reading ability in the local schoolchildren. The project involved University of Queensland education experts instructing teachers in local communities. The academics showed the teachers techniques for reading education, and observed ...

Determining the local economic impact of international students in most areas of Australia is nigh impossible because the data is a mess, an expert argued. In a study soon to be published in the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, professor ...